Word: cowed
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...drought took hold in earnest back in 1950, Wilhelm played it smarter than some of his neighbors, sold off his herds to prevent overgrazing, used the cash to buy feed for the animals he kept. Today it costs him a money-losing $12 a year to feed each cow, $2 to feed each sheep...
...Stretched wanly on a chaise longue, Actress Cornell, 58, seemed too old for her role, but with her first big speech captured a youthful intensity that was an optical as well as an acting triumph. Henry Daniell gave one of his best performances, as a father tyrannical enough to cow a platoon of rebellious children, and in one searing moment-when he harshly kissed his fluttery niece, Bella-suggested the Freudian horrors that were revealed in the last act. Anthony Quayle made a Byronesque lover as Robert Browning, but his part was badly crippled by the playwright's trick...
Like most tunnels, the Common cow-tunnel is covered at the top. But it is also unique in having been covered at both ends for many years--ever since the cows left Boston Common. And that is a curious story...
Along with one subway station, a lavatory, and an imminent city parking lot, the subterranean section of Boston Common also seems to contain a cow-tunnel. The Paulist Fathers have been building a new Information Center on Park Street. To do this they had to tear down an old building. In the sub-basement of the old building they found eight stalls. There was at first some question about whether the stalls had held cows or witches. (Several witches were hanged at the nearby Old Granary Burying Ground). In recent weeks the digging has uncovered a number of large cisterns...
...some time the Boston amateur historians have suspected that there is, indeed, a network of tunnels burrowing under the Common. These have all been blocked off for so many years that everybody had forgotten about them. But the new discovery has created a stir of renewed cow-tunnel interest among Boston-folk. Lots of people are coming to see. Since a new building will soon be on top of the cow-tunnel, and an underground city parking lot will soon be beneath it, there is not much time left. The address is 4-5-6 Park Street...